Uber wants to be your car, and the billboard. It’s turning its frequently used app into a surface for external commerce promotions in hopes of rewarding users with special deals. If Uber will give you $20 off for shopping with its partners, you might stick with it over competitor … | Continue reading
In 2013 Lara Setrakian was fed up with the news business. A longtime correspondent for both ABC News and Bloomberg Television, Setrakian had reported in and on the Middle East for years. From the Iran election crisis in 2009 to the Arab Spring uprisings throughout 2011, Setrakian … | Continue reading
Uber is embracing the Android payment strategy by moving away from the historically popular Google Wallet and towards Android Pay. | Continue reading
The increase of smartphone ownership in India is fueling the rise of mobile wallets in India. One company leading the charge, MobiKwik, has topped up its own funds with a $50 million Series C round announced today. Read More | Continue reading
The fight for privacy online has never been greater. With the advantages of modern technology, however, you can take steps to securely safeguard yourself against malicious attacks and identity theft through a VPN (Virtual Private Network) service. VPN keeps your online activity p … | Continue reading
Not everyone thinks and learns in the same way. Create a 3D brand experience that speaks to visual, auditory, tactile, and ready/writing learners. | Continue reading
Die französische Firma Trocadero hat eine Art Klapprad ausgeheckt, das auch auf den zweiten Blick absurd wirkt: Der Rahmen des Trocadero Fixie kann in Fahrtrichtung gedreht werden, wodurch Vorder- und Hinterrad nicht mehr in einer Ebene liegen... | Continue reading
'Big Four' accounting firm Deloitte has partnered with five startups to produce 20 blockchain prototypes. | Continue reading
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute spring exhibition shouts this from the metaphorical rooftops. The title of the show may be "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology," but in many ways that's beside the point. The exhibit seeks to explore the tension bet … | Continue reading
If you're new to Amazon Underground you can score yourself a free $5 credit when you sign up and install one of a selected group of free games. | Continue reading
Despite rumors of the contrary, HTC has not axed its smartwatch plans. That’s according to the notorious leaker Evan Blass, who claimed in a tweet that HTC’s wearable would finally be unveiled on the week of June 6, 2016. | Continue reading
The world’s most popular torrent sites has netted less than 50 cents per day in donations since it started accepting Bitcoin back in November, 2013. As pointed out by TorrentFreak, the total received by KickAssTorrents’ public bitcoin address is just 0.96 of a single bitcoin, whi … | Continue reading
Coffin Dodgers is named for the slang expression for the geriatric. It’s a racing game where instead of motorbikes, cars or skateboards, you are on a race against death on mobility scooters. Yes, it’s every bit as ridiculous as it sounds. Tasteless? Perhaps, but also a tremendous … | Continue reading
“There are not a lot of toys targeted at children with special needs,” says Ladislas de Toldi. “Because of their special needs, it’s harder for them to focus and progress. So how do you make an exceptional child learn and progress?”The Paris-based engineer is making the hard sell … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: MVM Life Science Partners today announced the closing of a $233 million healthcare fund, MVM IV. The fund is MVM's fourth and largest raised to date. MVM IV is investing in medical companies, principally in Europe and the ... | Continue reading
By the time the Form 1 began shipping to Kickstarter backers, the market was already flooded with countless 3D printers built around the same basic plastic extruding technology.But Formlabs offered something different. The Massachusetts-based startup eschewed the RepRap process o … | Continue reading
Quintana 4598, at the corner of Arias street, is a building of 12 functional units. The structure is modular, easily implemented and flexible. | Continue reading
Dish is getting into smartphone repairs. The satellite provider has announced that beginning today, anyone in the United States can request an on-site screen fix or battery replacement, and Dish will send one of its technicians out to handle the job. For now, Dish is only repairi … | Continue reading
Say hello to the Sony STR-DN1070, a $599.99 receiver announced at CES this year and available to purchase now. It's an iterative update on last year's STR-DN1060, supporting Spotify Connect, AirPlay, Google Cast, Bluetooth, six HDMI inputs, and nearly anything else you can think … | Continue reading
WowWee is bringing pro-level drone moves down to earth.The new $79 Lumi, which is now on Indiegogo, can dance, learn choreography and, like drones that cost hundreds more, avoid obstacles on its own.Designed primarily for indoor use, Lumi is a relatively small drone, but features … | Continue reading
Beth Hayden helps new content marketers stop scaring away their prospects, build trust, and start attracting tons of subscribers and sales. | Continue reading
Is it because the creator of Bitcoin could, just maybe, be an Aussie?The day after the mysterious Craig Wright told news outlets he was the father of Bitcoin, which many people continue to very much doubt, the Australian government included a number of crypto-currency-friendly me … | Continue reading
EUflight: Hamburg (ots) - EUflight ist Deutschlands bestes Fluggastrechte-Portal in der Kategorie "Sofortentschädiger". Das ist das Ergebnis einer Studie des unabhängigen Verbrauchermagazins "Finanztip", für das Experten insgesamt 15 Fluggasthelfer, davon ... | Continue reading
Moovit, the VC-backed local transit app that helps travelers find the best route from A to B on public transport, has rolled out Uber integration with its mobile app to more than 100 cities around the world. The San Francisco-based company has raised north of $80 million in fundi … | Continue reading
Late on Friday night, Intel snuck out the news that it’s bailing on the smartphone market. Despite being the world’s best known processor maker, Intel was only a bit player in the mobile space dominated by Qualcomm, Apple, and Samsung, and it finally chose to cut its losses and c … | Continue reading
“If Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she’d get five percent of the vote. The only thing she’s got going is the women’s card,” Donald Trump said during a press conference last Tuesday at Trump Tower. In a video response, Clinton fought back by saying: “If fighting for wom … | Continue reading
God Mode can make your computer more powerful with a batch of handy shortcuts, but the same trick is now being exploited by malware. | Continue reading
NEWS OF THE MORNING Thompson dominating on glass again | Bird won’t commit to Vogel as coach | Warriors back Green’s star status | Batum wants to re-sign with Hornets No. 1: Thompson breaking Hawks’ hearts again — Thanks in large part to a monstrous performance in the 2015 playof … | Continue reading
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) and Google could sign a deal as soon as today to make "several dozen" self-driving minivans, Bloomberg is reporting, citing unnamed sources. The minivans could be on the road this year, the "first phase" of a broader autonomous car deal between the … | Continue reading
In the idyllic, sleepy town of Zug in Switzerland, a city council meeting today saw the authority decide to accept bitcoin as a valid payment for municipality services as a part of a pilot program. | Continue reading
If you’re running out of storage space on your Android device, you might want to check your WhatsApp folder. Chances are you’ll find it full of images you don’t care to keep, like memes, cheerful greeting cards and screenshots. Those pictures can quickly add up and deleting them … | Continue reading
Der US-Tauchroboter Deep Discoverer hat im Marianengraben in 3700 Metern Tiefe ein Wesen entdeckt, das auf den ersten Blick wie ein kleiner Kollege von Deep Discoverer aussieht, es handelt sich laut der US-Meeresbehörde NOAA allerdings um eine... | Continue reading
Photos are the most personal digital artifacts that we possess in life today. What started with the analog camera in 1826, has grown into an unrelenting avalanche of personal memories truly meaningful to every one of us. The number of photos we take, many of which we share, is gr … | Continue reading
Oculus has some good news and some bad news, virtual reality fans.The good: If you've been looking to purchase a Rift headset of your very own, you'll have your chance to do just that online via Amazon or the Microsoft Store starting May 6 — and in 48 Best Buy stores starting May … | Continue reading
The founders of Ampler don’t want you to think of electric bicycles as special. "We are making bicycles," says co-founder Ardo Kaurit with a pause. "We’re building 21st century bicycles that combine a really good bike with modern technology to make them even better." The implicat … | Continue reading
With the full hardware specification for the PlayStation Neo out in the open, several questions spring to mind, principally - why now: as the impending arrival of the Nintendo NX caused a rethink at Sony headquarters? And perhaps more curiously, how is Microsoft going to respond? … | Continue reading
People active in the world of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency will have heard of the Zaif exchange before, which has become a popular Bitcoin platform in Japan. Money Partners Group has invested in TechBureau, the parent company of Zaif, for the sum of JPY 49 million. Money Partners G … | Continue reading
Adblock Plus and Flattr today announced Flattr Plus, a way for users to automatically contribute real money for what they read, listen, and watch on the web. You can sign up for the latest attempt to monetize online content now, but the beta will only start rolling out “early thi … | Continue reading
GUEST: After the International Game Developers Association announced our renewed focus on crunch time at GDC 2016, including ensuring fair compensation for the persistent practice in our industry, a new dialogue has resulted around whether or not crunch time is truly a “problem” … | Continue reading
Next Thing's CHIP is a $9 computer — kind of like a Raspberry Pi, but even cheaper. Well, not as cheap as the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero, which was launched after CHIP blew up Kickstarter, but cheaper than the $35 Raspberry Pi. About 30,000 CHIPs have shipped to backers so far, and now … | Continue reading
As part of its annual back to school refresh, HP's updated its Pavilion-branded laptops, which include its 2-in-1 laptops, standard laptops and all-in-one PCs.All of the Pavilion machines are now running Windows 10. But most striking, on the laptops, they're all sporting a new "d … | Continue reading
ADAC: München (ots) - Mit der ADAC CampCard genießen Urlauber in diesem Jahr 3.200 attraktive Spartarife auf mehr als 2.000 europäischen Camping- und Wohnmobilstellplätzen. Der ADAC Verlag hat einige Beispiele mit top-bewerteten Campingplätzen und ihren ... | Continue reading
Making money off blockchain is no longer just about bitcoin or financial applications. One group of leaders spent today debating that future. | Continue reading
SWR - Südwestrundfunk: Baden-Baden (ots) - Ein solches Projekt gab es in Deutschland noch nie: In Meßkirch entsteht derzeit - nach dem Vorbild des berühmten "St. Gallener Klosterplans" - eine komplette Klosterstadt mit rund 50 Gebäuden. Darunter gibt es Schlaf- und ... | Continue reading
A privacy activist is launching a campaign to name and shame publishers who use technology to block users with ad blockers installed in the latest battle over the controversial software. Several publishers have introduced pop-ups asking users to turn off their ad blockers or face … | Continue reading
Australian people are cooler than me. I’m an uptight Brit who sits around drinking tea all day, moaning about the weather and stressing whenever anything goes wrong. By comparison, the Australian lecturer in the video above is a calm and collected person who deals with a situatio … | Continue reading
There’s a war being waged in mobile. A war to control the final lucrative frontier that will shape how mobile is monetized. The battle is for mobile search, and its outcome is uncertain. Today, mobile search is a wild landscape of competing and contradictory technologies, unfulfi … | Continue reading
Delaware Gov. Jack Markell announced a state initiative to embrace blockchain and smart contract technology to help public and private enterprises lower transactional costs, automate and speed up transactions and reduce fraud. | Continue reading